Gunshots and explosion at a Crimean school is suspected to be a terror attack0:36

At least 19 people have been killed and 70 wounded, most of them teenagers, after a schoolboy detonated a bomb inside a Crimea school canteen and gunned down fellow pupils.

October 17th 2018

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In this image made from video, showing the scene as emergency services load an injured person onto a truck, in Kerch, Crimea. Picture: APSource:AP

AUTHORITIES on the Crimean Peninsula are searching for a possible accomplice of the student who carried out a shooting and bomb attack on a vocational school, killing 20 people and wounding more than 50 others, an official says.

An 18-year-old student, who later killed himself, was initially believed to be the only one involved in the carnage at the Kerch Polytechnic College on Wednesday.

Chilling footage shows the suspected gunman Vladislav Roslyakov, stalking the technical college corridors armed with a shotgun, reports The Sun.

Rescuers carry an injured victim of a blast at a college in the city of Kerch. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

Early reports suggested at least one gunmen was “killing everyone they could find, all those they could see.”

Witnesses said that the attacker fired shots but also spoke of hearing an explosion.

A student at the college who asked not to be named told AFP: “I was in a class when I heard shooting on the first floor.”

A man lays flowers at the WWII Hero Cities Memorial to the city of Kerch in downtown Moscow after the school shooting. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

“When we all ran out into the corridor, there were others running and shouting that some guy with a machine gun was randomly shooting everyone in turn.”

“Then a strong explosion went off, but thank God, I was already outside and saw our guys being thrown out of the windows by the explosive wave,” he said, adding that part of the building collapsed.

Special forces servicemen patrol a blast site at a college in the city of Kerch. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

Another witness who gave his name as Sergei and who worked nearby said in a video on the Kerch.tv website that he heard “a bang and shots.”

Sergei, whose shirt was covered in blood, said victims “were taken away in public transport, in minibuses and buses, with two or three people in each ambulance.”

“They are children and staff,” the witness said.

“I saw people without legs, without arms.”

Some Russian sources accused Ukraine of being behind the attack — despite there being no evidence yet of any such involvement and it bearing resemblance to similar massacres in Russia over recent years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi pause during a minute of silence to commemorate the victims. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

Close Putin ally Senator Franz Klintsevich, a member of the Russian Upper House Security and Defence Committee, said: “I don’t think that the hand of ISIS is able to reach Kerch.

“It is all more like a Ukrainian imprint.

“It can be … crazy nationalists, who are ready to do anything, in their hate to Russia.”

Russia is notorious for spreading misinformation and propaganda about Ukraine.

In recent times there have been a number of shootings in Russia — some of which are seen as copycats of the Columbine School shooting in Colorado in 1999.

The school attack in Kerch was the greatest loss of life in school violence in Russia since the Beslan attack by Chechen separatists in 2004, in which 333 people were killed during a three-day siege, many of them children, and hundreds of others wounded.

At least 18 killed in 'possible terror attack' in Crimea1:36

At least 18 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after an explosion in a college in Crimea.
The incident is being treated as a 'possible terror attack', with reports of a gunman going through classrooms shooting at students, and a number of explosive devices being found at the vocational campus.
Authorities have named an 18-year-old student as their suspect as the investigation continues.